NEWARK — Newark police identified the victim of predawn shooting as a city man who was fatally wounded an he exited a night club.

Derrick Sessons, 23, was shot multiple times after leaving a club on Washington Street, said Anthony Ambrose, chief of detectives for the Essex County Prosecutor's Officer.

He said the shooting appears to be an isolated incident and not a random shooting.

Police responding to reports of shots being fired at 1:18 a.m. found Sessons near University Avenue and Bank Street.

He was taken the city's University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Ambrose said.

Police have not arrested anybody for the shooting and the motive has not yet been determined, authorities said.

The prosecutor's Homicide Task Force is investigating the shooting.

This was at least the fourth homicide in the city this year.

On Jan. 16, officers responding a report of shooting found a man in his 30s wounded on the front porch of a home on 800 block of South 20th Street. The man was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:26 a.m.

Five days later, on Jan. 21, Akbar Muhammad, 36, of Newark, and Shante Spivey, 28, of East Orange were shot and killed they as the sat in a car on Springfield Avenue about 11:30 a.m. Three other people were wounded.

Muhammad, the oldest son of Imam Abdul Muhammad of Ali K Muslim Mosque in Newark, died at the scene. Spivey was taken to University Hospital where she succumbed a short time later.